124 Quotes by Vita Sackville-West

We could never have hit it off for long. There was never anything but love to keep us together.

All love is a weakness, if it comes to that, in so far as it destroys some part of our independence.

Tools have their own integrity...

Lovers, or potential lovers, ought never to meet before the afternoon.

It isn’t that I don’t like sweet disorder, but it has to be judiciously arranged.

Cristina, being something of a gardener, knew well enough that certain plants may appear to remain stationary for years while they are really making roots underground, only to break into surprising vigour overhead at a given moment.

It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by. How else, indeed, to clap the net over the butterfly of the moment.

All emotion now was a twilight thing.

There is nothing more lovely in life than the union of two people whose love for one another has grown through the years, from the small acorn of passion, into a great rooted tree.